The NHS spends over £20 billion every year on goods and services, which typically accounts for around 30% of the operating costs of each hospital. Lord Carter’s 2015 review of NHS productivity and unwarranted variation in NHS hospitals suggested that there is around £1bn in procurement savings to be made. The strategic vision in Lord Carter’s report emphasised the importance of collaboration to share information, resource and expertise in order to modernise NHS procurement.

Joint collaboration enables NHS CPP to deploy the collective expertise of each organisation, facilitate aggregation, avoid unnecessary duplication and influence the market to change the procurement landscape to best effect for the NHS. Utilising its combined skills, specialisms and experience, the partnership works closely with NHS and clinical stakeholders to understand each of their needs and expectations, tailoring the approach and developing bespoke solutions to ensure all stakeholders benefit from collaboration, ensuring quality, cost and value.

NHS CPP anticipates echoing its past successes with four new projects: the newly launched e-Catalogue and e-Requisitioning Solution – already twice shortlisted for the 2017/18 GO Awards; the imminent Clinical Consumables framework; the Theatre Surgery Consumables framework; and the Complete Ophthalmology Solutions framework, both of which are due to launch in March 2017.

NHS CPP is the result of four NHS organisations adapting and innovating ways of working in order to better meet the needs of the NHS. Harnessing our buying power and expertise will ultimately result in better distribution of resources, greater sharing of skills and experience, and increased transparency within the supply chain of products to the NHS. It will promote better customer behaviour by the NHS, improve short-term targets in cost reduction, bring long-term efficiency improvements, and ultimately contribute to better patient care and outcomes. NHS CPP is proud to be raising the bar for best practice in NHS procurement.

If you would like further information please contact Kerry Botes or call 0130664822